Yeah, yeah; I’m late on pressing the quiz show button. But nobody comes here for news, they come here for my witty repartee and undereducated reactions to things that go on around me. I’m the Sheila Broflovski of Seattle Mariners bloggers.

I have no idea what to make of this, and it looks like I might not be alone. It seems awkward to me; it’d probably help if I knew anything about Brett Wallace or Brandon League, however, it still seems odd and out of nowhere; just not in that same way that Jack Zduriencik and company usually make their odd-and-out-of-nowhere moves. If Dave Cameron is right, and this is a move made to a first base need, I’m kind of bummed about it. Maybe we could do better at first base, but I like Russell Branyan. I’d prefer that he came back, if for no other reason than that he’s Russell Branyan, and we can’t get Adrian Gonzalez or Lyle Overbay instead (and I am at least somewhat interested in Lyle Overbay, for purely lame, local-boy reasons). Actually, what I’m more keenly interested in is why the hell this news is coming out this late in the evening? It’s nearly 10pm PST.

I’m not ready for this, I’m going back to watching the No Reservations marathon…

EDIT: I’ll be damned…if this settles and is for certain, I do believe I will miss Mr Brandon Morrow…

EDIT #2: If Morrow’s going anywhere, he hasn’t been told about it yet. OK, seriously, I’m going to just put the laptop down and watch Adult Swim…

Sadly, I really did have a feeling he’d eventually wind up gone and probably wouldn’t make it to 2010 in an Ms uniform. Doesn’t make it much easier…eventually, they’ll run out of Mariners that were here when I started paying attention, so maybe I won’t feel so much like they’re taking away all my grade school friends. LOL

DG – Wallace was one of the names being tossed around in the original rumor, I believe. It doesn’t look like that’s the case as of this hour (9AM PST Tuesday), but he was one of the names thrown out on the wind. It was only briefly thrown out, and, as you mentioned, doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

Craig – looks like you’re not the only person who thought that, as Dave Cameron came up with that ‘getting rid of him’ idea as an actual possible reason for the trade. Though I also agree that it could have been an issue where it was the part of the Cliff Lee deal…